Recap: Reselling iPhone X, Bumping Vulnerable Passengers & Credit Freeze Fees

  • Bumping Vulnerable Passengers Or Passengers At Their Connection City Has Got To Stop by Dans Deals. Should Common Sense Be Regulated? Key point for me is “it’s cheaper and easier to involuntarily bump a passengers instead of finding a volunteer”. That’s the real problem with involuntary bumping at the moment, there is no real incentive for them to find a volunteer. If involuntary bumping was $10,000 we’d be seeing a lot less of it. Completely agree with Dan that it’s also unfair to bump vulnerable passengers like this. Corporations are always going on about self regulation, if that’s the case for airlines they need to be doing a much better job on this.
  • Equifax Hackers Stole 200k Credit Card Accounts in One Fell Swoop by Krebs On Security. Interesting to note the data discrepancies. Also worrying that the same flaw appeared on annualcreditreports.com and Experian’s site.

 

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Shane
Shane (@guest_542315)
December 28, 2017 04:12

Guys, best place to Buy Unlocked IPhone X from for international use in UK/India?

Also any good cashback sites to get CB on iPhone purchase from APPLE?

Yet Another Redditor
Yet Another Redditor (@guest_542523)
December 28, 2017 08:57

Buy the SIM Free version from Apple.com using Discover Deals for 5% CB

Shane
Shane (@guest_542792)
December 28, 2017 13:28

I need a Discover Credit Card for that right? What if I don’t?

Parkerthon
Parkerthon (@guest_478040)
September 16, 2017 13:35

It’s times like these I get annoyed by resellers. They artificially inflate prices by snapping up early supplies of major new releases and return them if they don’t pan out. I’m fine with buying things below market value, clearance etc and playing middle man and driving availability to online consumers albeit at a slight premium. However overhyped items attract too many casual resellers. It drives up prices through artificially introduced inefficiencies that hurts everyone ala scalping. In the end they add weeks and hundreds of dollars to the whole economy. Consumers only pay those prices because they have no choice. The resellers, however uncoordinated, establish a de facto market choke point purely out of widespread speculation. It’s like pump and dump penny stocks, except retailers usually get caught holding a backwash bag of inventory when the market finally swamps the soeculators.

Zer0cul
Zer0cul (@guest_478153)
September 16, 2017 19:22

“Consumers only pay those prices because they have no choice.”

Choice 1: order earlier

Choice 2: pay reseller

Choice 3: wait a bit

Plenty of choice for consumers.

Has anyone died from not having the newest iPhone for an extra week or two?

ed
ed (@guest_477421)
September 15, 2017 10:51

When a company is supposed to securely hold information on your credit worthiness and fails to secure that data, they should be made to pay restitution to the victims, not the states. We have many attorney generals bringing suit against them, and that’s well and good, but will the courts simply award the states money and the victims x number of years of credit monitoring? I say, liquidate the entire company, split the money among only those affected by the hack and let the company be no more. Companies need to realize when they fail big, they may become extinct.

Dave P
Dave P (@guest_477428)
September 15, 2017 11:01
  ed

Amen, brother!

…Too bad it’ll never actually happen.

Alen
Alen (@guest_477414)
September 15, 2017 10:25

Last year I was relatively successful selling (2) iPhone 7s. I made out with an extra ~$150 in my pocket after eBay and Paypal fees. This year I’m not as optimistic. I woke up at 2:00am CST to purchase the phones and I had no problem purchasing (2). After checking the Apple Store just now (~7 hours later), I realized that they are not selling very quickly. I can still pre-order any model iPhone 8 and pick it up at my local Apple Store on September 22.

I don’t suspect I’ll make any money, but I’ll use this opportunity to hit minimum spend on my newly acquired credit card by unloading the phone via facebook/craigslist.

captainsave
captainsave (@guest_477416)
September 15, 2017 10:38

Its the iphone x people will be going after. People want the new look.

Russ
Russ (@guest_477409)
September 15, 2017 10:07

They need to ban the thaw fees too, not just the freeze fees.

Credit
Credit (@guest_477380)
September 15, 2017 09:23

Regarding all the points you mentioned, it’s really hard to not blame one half of the country that vvotes a certain way, let’s call it busiess friendly way. It’s all their fault.

Leo
Leo (@guest_477390)
September 15, 2017 09:56

It’s much easier to just put all the blame at your doorstep. And probably better deserved!

Jim
Jim (@guest_477470)
September 15, 2017 12:59

So if half the population voted the other way, the hackers would have found alternative lines of work and the Equifax thing never would have happened? And there’d be no discussion of eliminating unnecessary credit freeze fees? And the new iPhone wouldn’t exist?

The people we should worry about aren’t half the population, it’s people who think like you do.

Yet Another Redditor
Yet Another Redditor (@guest_477365)
September 15, 2017 08:33